Read the below in Wireless Watch. Made me think again that it's
interesting that despite Japan's vaunted lead in mobile wireless, they
turned to an American company for their software.
I wonder if Docomo ever considered a home grown approach, i-ruby perhaps?
CHEERS> SAM
newsletters@japaninc.com wrote:
>Finally, we read (with some smug chuckles...) David Pringle's story
>in the February 21 edition of the Wall Street Journal, "Europe had
>Decisive Wireless Lead, but Lost it to US." Pringle details how
>European software, application and service developers gave up first
>spot in the wireless Internet software industry to American companies
>due to, among other factors, WAP's failure and the massive spectrum
>debts. Pringle wrote:
>
> The latest attempt to turn mobile phones into pocket
> computers that can download stock prices, music and
> video is based for the most part on US technology.
>
> Instead of traditional mobile-phone technology, Europe's
> strength, the next step is coming from the Internet,
> where the US dominates. As a result, the use of Internet
> standards, such as Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java, is making
> the mobile phone market more accessible to US software
> developers.
>
>We knew, of course, that Pringle left out mention of Japan's software
>companies since, as everyone knows, they are light-years ahead of the
>Americans, and need no mentioning.
>
Received on Tue Mar 5 02:28:56 2002